NOTE: Check out the Specials page to see this rare book joined
with an excellent demonstration video of the Wu Style Taiji Fast Set
featuring Ma Yueh Liang and Gerald A. Sharp.

This is the first time the Wu Style Taijiquan Fast Set has been translated
into English, and fulfills the wishes of the late Ma Yueh Liang that it be
done. Great emphasis was given to stick closley to the original text
published by the Henan Publishing Company. Additionally, the front and
rear covers follow the green and red color scheme on a white background,
as well as the arrangement of the Chinese calligraphy and the English
writing featured on the original. Yet another detail carried over are the
green and red Yin and Yang symbols featured on both the front and rear
covers of the First Edition.

Unique to this version is the addition of Ma Yueh Liang's picture on the
front and rear covers, because not only is Ma the subject of the drawings
featured in the book, but everyone who ever saw him demonstrate a solo
form publicly saw him do Wu's Fast Set. He can be seen doing the opening
of the Fast Set in the documentary, "Healing and the Mind," by Bill Moyers.
In short, Ma and the Fast Set are synonymous.

The Wu Style Taiji Fast Set is Wu Style's original form that was
created by Wu Quan You, Wu Jian Quan's father, from his studies with
both Yang Luchan and Yang Banhou, and which further served to
develop both Wu's Slow Set and the Wu Style System.

Comprehensive information on the mental and physical considerations
for practice, and explicit information on the use of fa jing (explosive
force) are provided. Included are the original line drawings (225 in all)
featuring Ma Yueh Liang, Wu Jian Quan's son-in-law, not to mention
detailed directions for practice of this lengthy, combative form.

This is not a rehash of the Slow Set, but is a completely different and
unique form, with text that presents new and insightful information
based on Taijiquan principles for developing internal strength, training
to use momentum and centrifugal force, as well as explosive intensity.